All right fellow Dopers, help me out here. I’m not sure how to explain this, but let’s try the most common scenario where I experience this problem.
I go to Download.com. I find a handy little utility I’d love to download. I click the link to download it, it takes me to the specific page for that program and tells me to wait while it starts my download automatically. THEN where it’s supposed to start the download, it opens the link for the download (which always ends in .exe, since these are self-extracting files). But it doesn’t download – instead, it shows me a quicktime logo, and if I wait for the “download” time to complete, I get a broken quicktime image.
So basically, I think it’s trying to run any .exe file over the internet as a quicktime movie. I have uninstalled quicktime to see what that does. In THAT case, instead of the quicktime logo, I get a little tiny multi-colored cube in the upper left corner of an otherwise blank page. If I click on that, I get a little message telling me that there is no handler for the type of object indicated.
So what’s up? How can I fix this?
I HAVE discovered a workaround for much of the time … I can sometimes click “save target as” instead of clicking the link to an exe file, and it will do just fine. But how can I tell it to DOWNLOAD an exe file rather than trying to run it with quicktime? It’s very irritating.
FYI, I’m running Windows ME on an HP Pavilion laptop.
It does this with any exe file on the 'net, but I’ve used the download.com example for simplicity.
Thanks in advance!